My last sentence below should say "mow it", not "now it".
73, Dick WC1M
> On Mar 19, 2017, at 9:03 PM, Dick Green <wc1m73@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my case, the radials need to go down in a large field that gets brush
> hogged once a year (by early July the grass is knee-high.)
>
> After brush hogging I could cut the grass to the roots with a mower and lay
> the radials, and I'm sure they'd be overgrown by the next brush hogging. But
> even though the depth of the brush hog mower is adjusted relatively high, I'm
> sure that the blades occasionally dip down to the ground as the tractor
> follows the terrain, and would cut or pull up the radials. Also concerned
> about the weight of the tractor wheels.
>
> I'd probably have to cordon off the area and now it frequently for at least a
> couple of years, and even the I'm not sure the radials would get buried
> enough to survive the brush hogging.
>
> 73, Dick WC1M
>
>> On Mar 19, 2017, at 7:21 PM, <n8de@thepoint.net> <n8de@thepoint.net> wrote:
>>
>> I put down 180 radials for 40m (3 verticals - 60 each) .. in less than an
>> hour no digging .. just mowed the grass to the roots ... laid the radials
>> on the ground and pinned them down.
>> Put down another 180 radials for my 3 80m verticals in about 90 minutes
>> using the same method
>> The radials have been down for about 9 years now with not one problem.
>> 73
>> Don
>> N8DE
>>
>>
>> Q
>> uoting greenacres113@charter.net:
>>
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>>>
>>> We used a Troybilt walk edger. Depth adjustable. We went 3.5''. Took
>>> abt 10 mins to dig 66' line for radials for our HyTower. We made slit,
>>> cut the radial wire & buried 25 over 2 days.
>>>
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